Supersonic shear imaging: a new technique for soft tissue elasticity mapping

By Jeremy Bercoff, Mickaël Tanter, Mathias Fink. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 2004

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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Coherent plane-wave compounding for very high frame rate ultrasonography and transient elastography (2009, methodology): “The reader interested in this elastography technique can refer to detailed explanations in [10], [11].”
Quantifying hepatic shear modulus in vivo using acoustic radiation force. (2008, methodology): “…estimate shear wave speed from dynamic tissue displacement data (u⃗) involves algebraic inversion of the Helmholtz equation (Oliphant et al., 2001; Bercoff et al., 2004): (3) This method has been successfully applied when ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging has been used to track tissue…”
EFSUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography. Part 1: Basic Principles and Technology (2013, neutral): “The process is repeated for a number of different push lines to create a final quantitative elasticity image in a box, which is presented as a colour overlay on the B-mode image in units of ms -1 , or converted to Young ’ s modulus in kPa as for TE [48, 49].”
Acoustic Radiation Force Elasticity Imaging in Diagnostic Ultrasound (2013, positive): “SSI has been utilized to detect breast cancer lesions [95], map hepatic viscoelasticity [96], assess stiffness in the muscoskeletal system [97], and for monitoring thermal ablation procedures [38].”
MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY: A REVIEW (2010, background): “Focused-ultrasound-based (FUS-based) radiation force has also been investigated as a means to create mechanical motion for various elasticity imaging strategies including MRE, where shear waves are created directly within tissue with externally placed ultrasound transducers (Wu et al., 2000; Nightin”
Model-based elastography: a survey of approaches to the inverse elasticity problem (2012, background): “Bercoff et al (2004) also developed a transient approach to elastography that they call supersonic shear-wave imaging (SSI), which is rapidly becoming the most established approach to ultrasonic elastography.”
Shear-Wave Elastography: Basic Physics and Musculoskeletal Applications. (2017, methodology): “Their passage, including their speed, can be observed on US images as long as the ultrasound echoes can be generated frequently enough (2,37,38).”
Ultrafast compound doppler imaging: providing full blood flow characterization (2011, background): “Ultrafast frame rates (several thousands of hertz) can therefore be achieved, and this has led to the introduction of a new quantitative elasticity imaging mode [12].”
WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 1: basic principles and terminology. (2015, background): “(A12) to determine shear wave speed, as was initially pursued with transient radiation force excitation methods (J. J. Bercoff et al., 2004; K. R. Nightingale et al., 2003).”
Shear Wave Spectroscopy for In Vivo Quantification of Human Soft Tissues Visco-Elasticity (2009, methodology): “This technique is based upon the use of an ultrafast ultrasound acquisition imaging system (5000 frames/s) which enables the real time visualization of transient shear waves propagating in the human body [ 24 ], [37].”
Evaluation of neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in women with locally advanced breast cancer using ultrasound elastography. (2013, background): “Shear wave imaging is similar to elastography in that tissue stiffness measurement can be carried out quantitatively, which estimate the Young’s modulus of tissue [36,37].”
A Review of Optical Coherence Elastography: Fundamentals, Techniques and Prospects (2014, methodology): “Many ARF-based techniques have been developed for ultrasound elastography and magnetic resonance elastography, including acoustic radiation force impulse imaging [114], shear wave elasticity imaging [115] and SSI [31].”